Success Is What You Make It

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What is success and how do you measure it? The experiences of a diversegroup of workers show how – and how much – they managed to balance career success with family responsibilities. Those who managed to strike the balance defined success on their own terms, had a strong sense of self and wereprepared to make trade-offs.... To this end, Mireia Las Heras of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa at the University of Navarra in Spain, together with Douglas T. Hall of Boston University, Mary Dean Lee of McGill University in Montreal and Ellen Ernst Kossek of Michigan State University in Lansing, tracked the experiences of a diverse group of high-level professionals for six years to see how successfully they managed to balance family and career success.